05 Dec 2024 midday – The Power of Harikatha Spoken by a Pure Devotee (Harikatha Online for Chinese Devotees, English) | Skype, Holland | Srila BV Vana Maharaja

  • Srila Gurudeva speaks sweet words to the Chinese devotees.
  • Krsna is wonderful and merciful and arranges for the devotees to meet Gurudeva.
  • One must nourish the soul, not just the body.
  • Harikatha nourishes the soul. If we do not hear Harikatha, material desires enter the heart.
  • Prahlada Maharaja said: śrī-prahrāda uvāca śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ… (SB 7.5.23-24).
  • Hearing Harikatha brings great strength to our body, mind and soul. Rasa-lila-katha is a powerful medicine.
  • ⁠Harikatha removes all anarthas from the heart, but it is necessary to attain atyantiki-sraddha.
  • ⁠We should serve the Divine Couple under the guidance of the Guru.
  • ⁠The heavenly nectar, of Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrndavana.
  • ⁠Sloka: tava kathāmṛtaḿ tapta-jīvanaḿ… (SB 10.31.9).
  • ⁠By following the Guru’s instructions step by step in the stages of bhakti, the devotee attains the highest goal of life.
  • ⁠The same sentence spoken in different moods has different meanings.
  • ⁠Follow the lotus feet of the pure devotee, do not go to the apa-sampradayas.
  • ⁠Caitanya Mahaprabhu explains that the authorized sampradayas have different goals and one of them has Radha-dasya as its goal.
  • Sloka: amnaya praha… (Dasa-mula Tattva 1).
  • Pacaratrik Parampara and Bhagavat Parampara.
  • Acintya-sakti.
  • Lila of Krsna with Rukmini when she faints due to Krsna’s playful words.
  • Where there is love, there is argument. In the material world, argument is motivated by selfishness, but in the spiritual world it is to satisfy Krsna.

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